Entries from January 2012

Monday, January 30. 2012

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Monday, January 23. 2012

Additions to our collection of online research databases in December includes:

Bibliography of English Women Writers, 1500-1640
This is a comprehensive record of scholarship on 738 women writers and their texts, canonical and non-canonical. Included are already familiar figures (e.g., Elizabeth Tudor and Mary Stuart) as well as lesser-known and hitherto unknown English women writers--refugees such as women recusants, women in the colonies, Marrano women (Anusot), and women translators as well as English women writers in French, Greek, Latin, Spanish, Gaelic, and Welsh.

CrimeSolutions.gov
On CrimeSolutions.gov you will find:
• Research on program effectiveness reviewed and rated by CrimeSolutions.gov researchers and reviewers
• Easily understandable ratings based on the evidence that indicates whether a program achieves its goals
• Key program information and research findings

Milton: A Bibliography (1624-1799)
This is an extensive revision and continuation of Milton: A Bibliography for the Years 1624-1700 (1984). The bibliography includes manuscripts and editions of John Milton's works, studies, and critical statements concerning Milton's life and works, allusions and quotations, and significant imitations, during the years 1624-1799.

For more information about new research databases, see the New databases page.

Thursday, January 19. 2012

The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive is co-sponsoring three performances of the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company’s “Legacy Project” at the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield. The “Legacy Project,” narrated by Dorfman, is presented in three parts and is set to music by Ilse Weber, composed while she was imprisoned in a ghetto. Dorfman is the company’s director and a child of Holocaust survivors. She choreographed the dances that bring together her family’s stories, Jewish history, and the universal struggle for identity among immigrants.

The three performances are scheduled for the following dates and times:
Thursday, January 26 – 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 27 – 10:00 a.m. (Family matinee)
Saturday, January 28 – 8:00 p.m.

Monday, January 16. 2012

Dr. Patch Adams will be on campus to give presentations on Thursday, January 19 and Friday, January 20. If you missed the showing of the 1998 movie Patch Adams in Kochoff Hall last week, you can order a VHS copy of the movie through MeLCat.
See some articles by Dr. Adams through the Scopus database. To read articles, click on "View at publisher" or "Article Linker.” Full text of all papers may not be available.

Notes:
• MeLCat searches hundreds of libraries throughout Michigan and delivers materials to the library you choose – like the Mardigian Library or your local public library. See more about using MeLCat.
• If you don’t have a VHS player, the library has VHS players on the first floor for viewing a video in the library.

Thursday, January 12. 2012

Roland S. Martin, columnist and host of the TV One Cable Network show Washington Watch with Roland Martin, will be a guest speaker at the Conversation on Race event on Wednesday, January 18. Mr. Martin’s presentation will be “Race/Racism and the Continual Challenge for Blacks and Whites to Acknowledge and Accept its Impact on Our Lives”.

Friday, January 6. 2012

The lists of new books and other materials added to the library's collection in November and December have been posted. Click on "...more New Arrivals" on the library's home page. Or, go directly to http://library.umd.umich.edu/newbooks/.